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[–] lockemup@sopuli.xyz 13 points 14 hours ago

Boo this welfare queen

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

He's shown himself to be a total white supremacist neo-nazi. He backed AfD. He's spent millions on political campaigns teeming with hate speech. We can't let him walk away from that.

Really, this isn't just a Musk issue, it's a billionaire issue. It's a plutocratic class issue. They want to keep their power, and as soon as hierarchy-enforcing extremist far-right movements form, they'll be right there to bankroll and support them. The patrician class is completely adversarial to the notion of society based on equality rather than privilege, and they will bring all their resources to bear to put down societies based on community and equal treatment.

Also, we've seen Musk's entire history is getting funding by lying, and making inspirational promises on which he won't deliver. Musk is the same kind of flim-flam artist as Trump, the same kind of shapeshifter as JD Vance or Lindsey Graham.

And then he makes cars that run people over, and rockets that shake houses apart, and trucks that cut people in half.

Musk needs to be separated from his capital. In this case the means of production very much needs to be seized and restored to the people.

Pink Floyd suggested the Fletcher Memorial Home (for Colonial Wasters of Life and Limb). Musk would be happy there.

[–] Substance_P@lemmy.world 9 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Couldn't have said it better.

[–] isaaclw@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago

Sure, but let's just do all billionaires instead.

[–] Napster153@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

Nobilities tend to inter-marry with whatever warlord or state takes control of the realm. It's why bloodlines can end up so weird with them.

[–] Lumidaub@feddit.org 17 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Elon Musk (identified by label), in a blue cap and blue sweater, skateboard on his back: "How do you do, fellow democrats?"

Took me maybe 10 minutes, on my phone, by hand, sitting on the loo.

[–] diaphragmwp@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Can't tell if what OP posted is AI or image editing... too much jpeg

EDIT: AI, skull changed color pallette and the wheel mount looks odd

[–] bad1080@piefed.social 73 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

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a "roman greeting" to you fellow democrats!

[–] MassiveSquid@lemmy.ca 6 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

AfD-loving Nazi.

[–] blinfabian@feddit.nl 16 points 1 day ago

see? he already had the blue background !

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 12 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Wait, did he claim to switch back?

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 27 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

He's deleting a bunch of his Shitter posts like the coward he is. Many are assuming he'll be bending the knee to Democrats so he doesn't lose the government welfare grants he lives off of or go to prison.

[–] anhydrous@lemmy.world 6 points 15 hours ago

No matter how many Xitter posts he deletes isn't going to make me forget the double salute day, or the atrocities since.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 7 points 20 hours ago

What a coward, he could at least have the ovaries to change sides with his whole chest and pretend like he's doing it for a different reason

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 10 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I wonder what it's like being born without a spine.

[–] NovaVeles@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago

I will not have Jimmothy the Raccoon put down like this! Musk is more like a sort of demonic amoeba that has used his animorphs like abilities to resemble a spinless person.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 27 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Homer had the right idea from the beginning.

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 5 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

TIL Musk played himself on a Simpsons episode a fucking decade ago

[–] Furbag@pawb.social 3 points 10 hours ago

He also played a version of himself from another reality in Rick and Morty, which Dan Harmon later deeply regretted portraying him as a genius. Although that could be explained by the fact that it's an alternate universe version of him where he's not a fascist prick.

Lots of people fell for his veneer of competency and glazed him like crazy in those days, and there was a real groupthink mentality behind his supposed genius - he was always portrayed by the media as intelligent and then when people hear about him in passing for the first time they come to a conclusion that if that many people think he's a genius then he simply must be.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 8 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

2015, not long before he started revealing his true colors.

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

But early on enough that only true haters like myself and fucking Thunderf00t for some reason really noticed. Seriously I thought I was going crazy back then for hating Musk, I could smell the profligate on him, feels good to be continuously vindicated.

[–] NovaVeles@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I think the first whiff I had off him was when he started talking hyperloop back in 2013. I figured it was just sort of mis-step in his judgment but that was the first scratch in his teflon coating.

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah that's what made me find out about him funnily enough since it was so beyond stupid due to basic atmospheric dynamics that I legit got pissed at one of my teachers at the time for being excited about it. Turns out violence autism makes one weirdly aware of what are bombs.

[–] NovaVeles@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Oh yes, that moment when you realize you know better than the teacher. That is a valuable lesson but also one that shouldn't go to ones head.

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

If it makes it any better that same teacher put a crack in my conservative upbringing by bringing to my attention the party swap. Good guy and frankly speaking it probably would've taken me till post 2020 to really shake it off instead of 2019, which may not seem like a lot but I should note that I am infact fueled by hatred as a baseline and that reactionary slop was cheap fuel for my fire. But thankfully I am now largely fueled by my own self supplied righteous furry, though that does make me some absolutely heinous and unhinged shit. But hey could be worse.

[–] EmptyAsparagus@piefed.social 31 points 1 day ago

imagine spending over half a billion to just switch sides when it isnt working. if this doesnt show everyone, that billionaires shouldn't exist ....

[–] RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 33 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Dude was an outspoken democrat during the obama admin, he's just a shill for whatever current power he thinks will get him more money.

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago

I'm old enough to remember republicans railing against the government giving money to tesla in one of the spending packages.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Same as former Democrat Trump.

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Alex Jones called Trump a Democratic plant on election night.

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 10 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Alex Jones wears velcro sneakers.

[–] Snowclone@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago

Alex Jones eats chili topless as a self perceived masculine power play.

[–] modus@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He absolutely is. I'd say his IQ is between ragweed and a fern.

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[–] NovaVeles@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

For the love of money is the root of all evil - St Timothy verse something:whatever

[–] tyranny@crazypeople.online 22 points 1 day ago

NEVER SLOP!

[–] LeftReddit2@lemmy.world 106 points 1 day ago (14 children)

I am man enough to admit I used to like Musk. Deadass. I remember long long ago in the past he supposed universal healthcare and universal basic income, anyone else?

I turned on him a bit after the diver shit when he wrongly called that guy a pedophile, but then 2020 did it in for me because HE DIDN'T SUPPORT ANDREW YANG! Andrew Yang was basically right about everything, let's be so for real.

Why did Musk not push his weight behind him. Imagine if he tossed the money he put into supporting cuckservatives into supporting Yang! We might actually be getting $1000 a month now WHICH WE SHOULD AS YANG WAS RIGHT!

Fuck this stupid, South African fraud. Deport him back to Cape Town.

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Andrew Yang was basically right about everything, let’s be so for real.

Yang sucks it. You should perhaps think about who you admire more deeply.

The mindset behind a single guy / thing / policy fixing everything is part of the problem. The world is more complicated than that.

[–] GolfFoxtrotLima@sh.itjust.works 1 points 14 hours ago

Honestly he should be given the death penalty

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Fuck deportation. He deserves nothing less than full asset seizure and life in prison. Stop settling for a world that allows megalomaniacs to subvert democracy with lesser consequences than common thieves. These are the highest of crimes.

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 1 points 14 hours ago

We could always mutilate him on the way out. Wouldn't be too hard to fuck him up visually enough that nobody could easily identify him, hell just chuck him out of a plain with an Amazon branded parachute and see if he lands.

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 65 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I remember long long ago in the past he supposed universal healthcare and universal basic income, anyone else?

He used to have a PR team to help him with this shit.

But then at one point he fired them (probably because they'd told him one too many times that he shouldn't do Nazi salutes) and started making his own shitposts on Twitter (it was still Twitter back then), and that's when the world began to see the real Elon.

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[–] BassTurd@lemmy.world 42 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The diver pedophile situation was the big turning point for me. I wouldn't say I was a fan boy or anything, but I certainly didn't think he was the scum of the Earth. Then like a light switch, he because a shittier, more evil Montgomery Burns.

[–] SouthEndSunset@piefed.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Makes Burns look pleasant to be honest.

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[–] daannii@lemmy.world 35 points 1 day ago (8 children)

First time I heard of him was a PBS video. Where they walked around his newly starter factory where electric cars were being developed. He was semi bald then. He was saying how he just wanted to make green cars. Needed investors.

Wanted to make fast and cheaper electric cars so everyone could stop using gas.

Found myself hoping he could make that happen. Seemed like a decent guy trying to do good.

What a lying sack of garbage.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 6 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

It's entirely possible that he was a decent person at that time. There's a psychological term that escapes me, but the idea is the nearly every one of us will change given money and power, feel that rules no longer apply to us, feel that we're smarter than the hoi polloi.

Combine that with drugs and whatever delusions he already had, along with a sketchy family... 🤷🏼‍♂️

[–] scutiger@lemmy.world 5 points 20 hours ago

He was born into generational wealth. His parents owned emerald mines. He was never a good person, and almost all his achievements were bought.

[–] daannii@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

It's this idea of power corrupts.

It's part of the fundamental attribution error. A cognitive bias.

The belief that if I succeed, Or have "success" (however you define that), it's because I deserve it. I worked hard. I'm better than others who haven't achieved what I have. Other people who haven't achieved what I have are just lazy and stupid.

But if I fail, it's someone else's fault.

If others succeed it's because they got lucky. If others fail it's due to a personal trait. (Lazy, stupid, etc).

The farther you get from average, the easier it is to have this bias in the extreme.

Imagine you have no morals or ethics. And so you have no issue exploiting or using tragedies to profit. So you get rich from those actions.

You look around and others who didn't do that and think " they are just stupid. I'm obviously smarter than them because I saw an exploit and took it".

When in reality , other people know how to exploit, we just choose not to because of empathy. Or , in some cases, lack of opportunity to do so. You often need money to make money.

But yeah I think so many of these ultra wealthy people really do believe they are smarter than everyone else because they look for and take advantage of exploits. That's their whole business model.

This doesn't make them smarter. Infact from my perspective it makes them appear to have lower intelligence.

Sure I could have a lot more money if I had no issues walking into my neighbors' house, murdering them and stealing all their money And possessions.

I could do this a few places every night and be pretty wealthy at the end of the week.

That's not being "smart" or creative or anything requiring intelligence. That's actually the simplest way to make money. Just take it from someone else.

Real ingenuity is building sustainable business practices.
None of them are capable of that. Obviously.

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[–] myyass@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago

Meatspin butt he's trying to catch it. Muskrat Halloween Costume Intensifies.

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